Is The GOP Race Over?

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He's already a PR nightmare

Looking into more irregularities or just unusual actions taken throughout the GOP primaries.....man there needs to be a call to make these things a lot more open, or just cut the show and go back to having party bosses pick the nominee
Blatant fraud in GA and MO. Questions in Maine. Some...unusual actions in Nevada (which could be sincere but we don't know since some votes were closed and info was held back).
Iowa was of course a mess, though in the end it seems the rightful winner was called.

What a disaster.

Naturally the road for Romney is clear now but it'll be interesting to see how clear. Sure most will cave and vote Romney (or stay home) but curious how many will turn to the Newt and Paul as the only "anti Romney guys" left.

Textbook wrote: Nah, it's over. I know the media wants to turn to Gingrich and Paul and big them up to keep the drama going

Sorry to disregard the rest, but no
First, don't ever say I go along with the media
Second, they've minimized Gingrich to the point of ridicule long ago, the only time they bring up his name is linked to "lol when is this guy just gunna drop out?" and he "lives in a fantasy land where he's relevant"


All that is true, but ...the media has already said this is Romney's, the game is over.
We know they are not going to "big up" Paul either, and no reason to go into why.


Oh man we all know it's Romney's. It was his before the first vote was ever cast in Iowa.

I'm just curious what the actual people are gunna do. How many conservatives will stay home? How many will turn to who to vet their Romney frustration? Will overall turnout decrease with Santorum out? If so that could be to the benefit of those whacky Paul nots, and there's plenty in the Northeast and West.
But yeah don't ever take what I say as hope, Romney is the guy without doubt.



Edited by JJLehto - April 10 2012 at 19:51

Ron Paul won't drop out before Texas has its shin-dig, and that' ain't till May 29.  Gingrich could very well go before then.

Delegate-wise, that could make things quite interesting.


Edited by Epignosis - April 10 2012 at 20:24

The problem now, as it always has been, is the media.  They have been declaring it over for a long time now and will continue to dismiss Gingrich and completely ignore Paul.  With Paul's huge turnouts at California campaign events this past week maybe he could still make a play at some of the large states coming up, being the only alternative.  Standing in his way, of course, is media bias and the republican establishment. 

Sorry Paul crowd, it's over. Paul will never ever ever be given the Republican nominee. Now I'm not speaking ill of Paul. I'd rather see him in the White House than Romney. But he is wasting his time campaigning for a nomination he will never be given.

Textbook wrote: Sorry Paul crowd, it's over. Paul will never ever ever be given the Republican nominee. Now I'm not speaking ill of Paul. I'd rather see him in the White House than Romney. But he is wasting his time campaigning for a nomination he will never be given.

And Barry Goldwater never won the Presidency.

Epig: You might be right about the ideological revolution. But that's the long-game and if he's in for the long-game he should be going third party. I think the weak, rotting carcass and terrible PR image of the GOP is not going to do him any favours. A perceived fresh start would help a lot. Paul should be seen as the founder of something but I fear he's going to be remembered as another GOP wacko.

But suppose he runs third party after Romney is chosen?  What then?

The GOP would be f**ked, and then there is a serious race unless the establishment disallows Paul's participation in debates with Romney and Obama.

I would love to see Paul debate Obama.  I'd pay money. 

Equality 7-2521 wrote: I see him using it as a bargaining chip.

I would hate to see that, but he's smarter than me, so maybe he knows what he's doing.

What if he uses his delegates in that manner and says, "Suck it Trebek, Romney, I'm third party!" ?